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Denominational Groups, 2000

252,962	180,979	3,661	192,017	21,781	956,086
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	% Change
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+71,109	59.0%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+28	+34,060	n.a.
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-9	+11,704	23.0%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	+24	+9,042	60.0%
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	+50	+8,593	n.a.
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+14	+7,060	80.0%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	+4	+6,936	226.0%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3,399	755.0%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+11	+3,356	74.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+6	+2,907	25.0%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+2,440	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	+1	+2,154	n.a.
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+1,813	n.a.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	-6	+1,414	74.0%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+10	+783	8.0%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+719	20.0%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+583	68.0%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	+5	+458	n.a.
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+384	145.0%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	+8	+364	n.a.
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	+4	+332	202.0%
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+272	n.a.
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+241	70.0%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+223	n.a.
American Baptist Association, The	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+190	42.0%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+183	n.a.
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	+1	+165	15.0%
Separate Baptists in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+156	50.0%
Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	+139	278.0%
Christian Union	Evangelical Protestant	0	+118	40.0%
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	+1	+114	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	+1	+63	n.a.
Midwest Congregational Christian Fellowship	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+58	n.a.
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+48	15.0%
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	+34	58.0%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	+3	+14	4.0%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+6	n.a.
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	-38	-9.0%
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-70	-48.0%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-93	-60.0%
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-171	-77.0%
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	-1	-326	-80.0%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-349	-31.0%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	-11	-457	-3.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	-1	-798	-6.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	-2,304	-27.0%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-5	-3,307	-31.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-3,421	-47.0%
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	0	-5,495	-77.0%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-5	-5,738	-20.0%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	-12	-8,231	-25.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	-13	-8,735	-20.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	+3	-8,785	-48.0%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	-17	-13,062	-16.0%
	Totals:	+119	+110,254	+21.9%

The population of these 9 counties (or equivalents) in 1980 was 1,305,911; in 2000 it was 1,607,486. The total population changed 16.4%. The adherent totals for 1980 (515,359) represent 39.5% of the 1980 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (651,400) include 40.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1980 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 54 groups to calculate 1980-2000 change. These 54 groups had 503,666 adherents in 1980 and 613,920 adherents in 2000, for a change of 21.9%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and include statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. Bernard Quinn, Herman Anderson, Martin Bradley, Paul Goetting and Peggy Shriver supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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